Bottle-stopper



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Patented Dec. 19, 1893.

WlTNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BROOKS, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-8T0 PPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 51 1,1 14, datedDecember 19, 1893.

Application filed November 5, 1892. Serial No. 451,088. (No model.)

. is connected to a lever secured to the neck of the bottle.

The present improvements are directed to the manner of connecting thestopper or cap to the bail so that the stopper is prevented from movinglaterally along the bail and so render the stopper more easily adj ustedover the mouth of the bottle. In prior devices, designed to efiect thisresult, it has been proposed to divide the journal portion of the bailin two separate portions by forming the center bar of the bail with acentral bend or enlargement which required a similar recess both in thestopper and in the securing plate to accommodate such bend orenlargement and permit the stopper to rotate with respect to the bail.This central bend formed no part of the journal but simply provided anobstruction to the lateral movement of the bail with respect to thestopper, the journals being on the unbent portion of the bail. In suchdevice also the downward strain of the bail upon the stopper naturallytended to start its center-bar bending at the point the central bendmerged into the straight portion of the bar, that is to say, within itshearing, and as this point and the adjacent portions of the center-barwere confined by the bearing formed by the stopper and securing platethe tendency was to force the securing plate from its solderedfastening.

The object of this improvement is to improve and simplify the connectionbetween the stopper and the bail and to render the connection moresecure.

The accompanying drawings show the improvements in connection with aportion of a bottle, in which drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2is a vertical section on the line 2, 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a similarsection on the line 3, 3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of aportion of the bail showing the stopper partially rotated on the bail.

The improved stopper B is shown in connection with a bottle or jar A theneck only of which is delineated. The stopper consists preferably of asheet of metal stamped to the desired shape to provide a flange cto reston the upper edge of the bottle, with a depression 01 to fit slightlywithin the mouth of the bottle and with a central raises to forma seatand a portion of the bearing for the bail F. The bail F is generallymade of wire bent to provide a center bar 9, and two downhanging bars h,which are connected to the usual lever I that is supported in any propermanner by a wire j secured around the neck of the bottle. The'center barof the bailFisformed with a central bend or depressed portion 7a,merging into the straight or unhent portion of the bar by sharp bends 1which in effect provide a shoulder on each side of the portion it. Thisdepressed portion It forms the journal of the bail thus bounded on bothsides by shoulders made by the sharp bends Z; and this portion of thejournal is held in a hearing an formed by the top of the central raise eand a securing plate n secured to the raise e by solder or otherwise.This bearing an is better formed by forming a groove in the top of theraise e and in the underside of the securing plate at, which embrace theentire length of the journal portion is of the bail. The securing platenis substantially the same width as the raise a and the length of thejournal portion It, so that the edge of said plate and the wall of theraise both form barriers to meet the shoulders made by the sharp bends Zand prevent the center bar of the hail from moving laterally to one sideor the other through the bearingm. Thejournal portion 7a of the bail isonly bent out of line with the remainder of the center bar suflicient toform shoulders to confine the bail against lateral displacement withrespect to the stopper B and hence the remainder or high part of the theupper surface of the stopper than the journal portion 70, sufficientspace is left to permit the bar to bend downward as indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the central depression inthe center bar of the bail acts as the journal proper, and that thebearing therefor embraces the entire length of this central depressionor journal and in this respect the connection between the stopper andbail differs entirely from the 20 prior devices before mentioned.

What is claimed is The herein described connected stopper and hail, thestopper whereof is provided with the I central bearing, m having theclose fitting covering cap or plate a and the bail whereof is formedwith a central journal portion 7a terminated at each end by the sharpupward bends I which form shoulders to the journal and elevate the armsof the bail, and which are situated outside of said central bearing, asand for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN BROOKS.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. H. GRAHAM, W. H. GRAHAM.

